Yes, that works, but when you start adding the full path which also includes spaces, it fails.

The issue is with getting the quoting and escaping set correctly for the shell.

c:\test>dir "C:\Music\Ray LaMontagne"
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 4CD3-F30A

 Directory of C:\Music\Ray LaMontagne

07/30/2015  02:31 PM    <DIR>          .
07/30/2015  02:31 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/30/2015  02:31 PM                 0 2010 - God Willin' & The Creek 
+Don't Rise.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  938,700,210,176 bytes free

c:\test>type Perl-1.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

# I created this full path for the test
my $fn = q(C:\Music\Ray LaMontagne\2010 - God Willin' & The Creek Don'
+t Rise);
print $fn, $/;

#my $fn = "this 'is' a text file.txt";

my @s = stat $fn;
print Dumper \@s;

c:\test>Perl-1.pl
C:\Music\Ray LaMontagne\2010 - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
$VAR1 = [];

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I've delt with this issue before and always need to run a bunch of tests to get the quoting/escaping correct.

In reply to Re^3: stat on file name containing single quotes by fishmonger
in thread stat on file name containing single quotes by perlpipe

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